Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Proverbs are all very fine when there’s nothing to worry you, but when you’re in real trouble, they’re not a bit of help.

It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

That is one good thing about this world… there are always sure to be more springs.

It only seems as if you’re doing something when you worry.

In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.